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Mammalodon hakataramea Fordyce and Marx 2016, sp. nov.
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Mammalodon hakataramea Fordyce and Marx sp. nov.
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Holotype. OU 22026 – dorsal part of braincase, comprising much of the supraoccipital and parts of the parietals and squamosals, preserved with the original dorsal surface down, and the bioeroded ventral surface upwards; left tympanic bulla lacking the posterior process; five teeth with little or no remnants of the crown. All elements were closely associated, with no other fossil cetacean remains nearby.
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Published as part of Fordyce, R. Ewan & Marx, Felix G., 2016, Mysticetes baring their teeth: a new fossil whale, Mammalodon hakataramea, from the Southwest Pacific, pp. 107-116 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74 on pages 109-113, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.11, http://zenodo.org/record/12213827
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Identifiers
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD37FB68FFDFFFBDFF6D0F059BE5FF03
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:6D960230-3799-4597-BAAD-2537772B99A6
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NZMS , OU
- Material sample ID
- NZMS260 , OU 22026
- Scientific name authorship
- Fordyce and Marx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Mammalodontidae
- Genus
- Mammalodon
- Species
- hakataramea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mammalodon hakataramea Fordyce & Marx, 2016
References
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- Tsai, C. - H., and Fordyce, R. E. 2015. The earliest gulp-feeding mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New
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- Miller, G. S. 1924. A pollack whale from Florida presented to the National Museum by the Miami Aquarium Association. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66 (9): 1 - 15.
- Andrews, R. C. 1916. Monographs of the Pacific Cetacea. II. The sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis Lesson). 1. History, habits, external anatomy, osteology, and relationship. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1: 289 - 388.
- True, F. W. 1904. The whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic compared with those occurring in European waters with some observations on the species of the North Pacific. Smithsonian contributions to knowledge 33: 1 - 332.
- Boessenecker, R. W. and Fordyce, R. E. 2014 b. Trace fossil evidence of predation upon bone-eating worms on a baleen whale skeleton from the Oligocene of New Zealand. Lethaia DOI: 10.1111 / let. 12108.